What are the responsibilities and job description for the Enterprise Applications - Business Analyst position at Arcosa Inc.?
Arcosa, Inc. is seeking an Enterprise Applications – Business Systems Analyst in our Dallas, TX headquarters. Reporting to the Senior Director, Corporate Applications, the Analyst will be responsible for key focus areas of Needs/Requirements Discovery and Articulation, Technology Management, and Developer and Business Relationship Management and Communication. The Analyst will work to understand business requirements and implement appropriate solutions. This individual will be a part of the Enterprise Applications team.
Arcosa, Inc. (NYSE: ACA) is a growth-oriented manufacturer and producer of infrastructure-related products and services. The company has businesses with leading positions in construction, energy, and transportation markets with annual revenues in excess of $2B.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Needs Discovery
Arcosa, Inc. (NYSE: ACA) is a growth-oriented manufacturer and producer of infrastructure-related products and services. The company has businesses with leading positions in construction, energy, and transportation markets with annual revenues in excess of $2B.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Needs Discovery
- Identify a desired future state that addresses a business problem. Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
- Drives consensus for a desired future state that meets the business problem and enterprise objectives and identify enterprise-wide opportunities for solution leverage
- Manage requirements to the smallest set that will provide the biggest impact in advancing business objectives and understands business process complexity
- Influences business partner requirements in support of enterprise objectives
- Creating Compelling Business Cases to measure and communicate proposed project benefits
- Providing Accurate Project Effort Estimates with ability to quantify project resource requirements by recognizes the implications of business strategy changes and effectively engages project stakeholders in the estimation process
- Create solutions that advance enterprise architectural objectives including an understanding of the dependencies between the layers of the technology stack including compute, data, transactional and analytics.
- Guide solutions options and business partner decision making to minimize the amount of project investment divergence from target architecture
- Identify opportunities for creating reusable enterprise services and guide/manage interactions with technology vendors
- Design solutions for end-user adoption and productivity improvement and identify the requirements to ensure end-to-end service performance from the end user’s perspective
- Guide solution development through its complete lifecycle including Agile/Scrum methods
- Communicate effectively across multiple constituencies to support project and organizational change objectives
- Effectively engages key knowledge workers and business sponsors in change management activities
- Engage business sponsors and contribute to their targeted business outcomes and influence business partner decision making to optimize requirements prioritization
- Build long-term relationships between multiple business partners to drive engagement in IT strategy
- Engage developers to ensure productivity and solution quality and educates developers on a project’s business context and effectively collaborates with geographically distributed teams
- Additional duties as assigned by leadership
- MBA preferred or 8 years equivalent experience for a Sr. Analyst, 4 years for a solution analyst and 2 years for a business analyst
- Software requirements development methods including agile user stories creation
- Manufacturing industry experience, with knowledge of one or more of the core process domains of planning/scheduling, master data, production, shop floor control, inventory management, distribution and logistics, warehouse management, order acquisition, product lifecycle management, finance and accounting, services delivery, enterprise asset management, HR, EH&S
- Solution development expertise in one or more ERP applications such as Oracle, NetSuite, IFS, UKG, and Salesforce
- Business process design experience and track record of promoting process improvement
- Previous Software Design, Software Documentation, Software Development Processes (waterfall, agile, iterative) experience. Hands-on solution design and implementation through production support and/or retirement. Large scale systems deployment experience a plus.
- Business case/benefits case development expertise
- Demonstrated expertise leading a solution development effort including typical project management tasks
- Previous experience as a sprint development team member
- Maintains currency in emerging industry and process best practices and technology enablers
- Understanding of and experience with organizational change implications
- Demonstrated Cross Functional Teamwork and Collaboration
- Understanding of Software Maintenance Lifecycle
- Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
- Effective Written Communication and Presentation Skills
- Business consulting experience is desirable with a recognized management consultancy
- Familiar with Change Management and Incident Management processes
